Admiral Draper's Really Really Boring and Totally Pointless Snippets of Information
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: East Ecosse
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Sorry if this is not appropriate, but I searched previous threads for some memories, and spent a lot of time trawling this one from 12 years ago Very comforting.. The Really Really Boring And Pointless Snippets oF Information Thread MkX
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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There were many wonderful utterings from the FSL.
I have tried (unsuccessfully) to access the very first TRABB.
Anyone got the link?
Maybe we should have a list of the whole sequence?
I have tried (unsuccessfully) to access the very first TRABB.
Anyone got the link?
Maybe we should have a list of the whole sequence?
Join Date: Apr 1998
Location: Mesopotamos
Posts: 1,434
Wot a wit of the written word. News of our Admiral setting sail on a new course saddens my heart deeply. I shall dearly miss his creative input and especially his essays and recollections of adventures on the high seas.
Thanks Tony.
Thanks Tony.
Gnome de PPRuNe
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Too close to Croydon for comfort
Age: 57
Posts: 7,647
Very sad for his passing and delighted to have made his acquaintance on PPRuNe; the sort of person whose company both real or virtual is always a pleasure and remembered with a smile.
Just call me Rotty
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Rotty's Bar and Grill (@RJAF) Shinshu JP
Posts: 42
Originally Posted by treadigraph
... the sort of person whose company both real or virtual is always a pleasure and remembered with a smile.
Saturday has dawned, slept in just a tad... rare indeed. Expected to see forecast snow but none has arrived, perhaps rain later they say.
Just call me Rotty
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Rotty's Bar and Grill (@RJAF) Shinshu JP
Posts: 42
Originally Posted by G-CPTN
There were many wonderful utterings from the FSL.
I have tried (unsuccessfully) to access the very first TRABB.
Anyone got the link?
Maybe we should have a list of the whole sequence?
I have tried (unsuccessfully) to access the very first TRABB.
Anyone got the link?
Maybe we should have a list of the whole sequence?
Just call me Rotty
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Rotty's Bar and Grill (@RJAF) Shinshu JP
Posts: 42
Just call me Rotty
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Rotty's Bar and Grill (@RJAF) Shinshu JP
Posts: 42
Full text:
Hello , I wonder if you nice people can help me,my name is tony, since they closed the big place down, and let me outside,I have lived in the cellar of mommies old house.
I do ok here,the furry things come and I eat them, I've got new pajamas but they don't even have the belts and buckles on them like my old ones did.
I like living here and if I don't forget to take my pill the fat man hardly ever comes and whispers in my ear now
Last week the nasty man from up the street Mr Angry the Pilot came and started shouting at me, I got very frightened, and I did the the bad thing to him, I know I'm not supposed to do the bad thing to folks, the furry things its ok, but not folks, but I was very scared
Mr Angry stopped shouting at me he sat on the floor an just sort or gurgled.
I waited a long time but he just sat there, so I had a look at him close up, I think his head was a bit broken so I went and got my little tool box to fix it, I'm good at fixing stuff.
Well you'l never guess what I found,he had one of them white things like on the pirate flag stuck inside his head, no wonder the poor man was always shouting,
So I took it out and sure enough he stopped gurgling and went to sleep. his head looked a bit floppy now but was ok once I put the eyes back in the holes right way round.
He was still asleep the next day, and I started to worry, what if Mrs Angry comes looking for him? wanting him to fly a aeroplane thingy for her.
He was really sound asleep and just wouldn't wake up even when I hit him with daddies big hammer.
I waited till night and went to ask mommy what to do, but the man with the hat was there and he chased me so hard I dropped my shovel.I wish mommy didn't live with the dead folks in that place with all the stones.
Sometimes you can get things to work by putting them back the way they were.
so I tried to put the white pirate thing back but his head had stopped being floppy it was all stiff, it didn't matter how hard I bashed it with the hammer it just wouldn't go back in. I broke both the eyes as well.
Don't know what to do now , Mr angry has started to smell funny just like the room with the tiles at the big place and the furry thing keep squeeking at him and wanting him to play with them.
Mommy told me if I kept doing the bad thing to folks that they would put me on Mr Nasties aeroplane and he would fly me to Merica, where there was lots of folks like me.
He better wake up soon or they'l give his aeroplane to someone else and he will be really mad.
I forgot to take my pill last night, so the fat man came and whispered in my ear, this time he was nice , he said don't worry tony Mr Nasty doesn't need anything inside his head to fly a aeroplane.
I do ok here,the furry things come and I eat them, I've got new pajamas but they don't even have the belts and buckles on them like my old ones did.
I like living here and if I don't forget to take my pill the fat man hardly ever comes and whispers in my ear now
Last week the nasty man from up the street Mr Angry the Pilot came and started shouting at me, I got very frightened, and I did the the bad thing to him, I know I'm not supposed to do the bad thing to folks, the furry things its ok, but not folks, but I was very scared
Mr Angry stopped shouting at me he sat on the floor an just sort or gurgled.
I waited a long time but he just sat there, so I had a look at him close up, I think his head was a bit broken so I went and got my little tool box to fix it, I'm good at fixing stuff.
Well you'l never guess what I found,he had one of them white things like on the pirate flag stuck inside his head, no wonder the poor man was always shouting,
So I took it out and sure enough he stopped gurgling and went to sleep. his head looked a bit floppy now but was ok once I put the eyes back in the holes right way round.
He was still asleep the next day, and I started to worry, what if Mrs Angry comes looking for him? wanting him to fly a aeroplane thingy for her.
He was really sound asleep and just wouldn't wake up even when I hit him with daddies big hammer.
I waited till night and went to ask mommy what to do, but the man with the hat was there and he chased me so hard I dropped my shovel.I wish mommy didn't live with the dead folks in that place with all the stones.
Sometimes you can get things to work by putting them back the way they were.
so I tried to put the white pirate thing back but his head had stopped being floppy it was all stiff, it didn't matter how hard I bashed it with the hammer it just wouldn't go back in. I broke both the eyes as well.
Don't know what to do now , Mr angry has started to smell funny just like the room with the tiles at the big place and the furry thing keep squeeking at him and wanting him to play with them.
Mommy told me if I kept doing the bad thing to folks that they would put me on Mr Nasties aeroplane and he would fly me to Merica, where there was lots of folks like me.
He better wake up soon or they'l give his aeroplane to someone else and he will be really mad.
I forgot to take my pill last night, so the fat man came and whispered in my ear, this time he was nice , he said don't worry tony Mr Nasty doesn't need anything inside his head to fly a aeroplane.
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Los Angeles, CA USA
Posts: 27
The wit and wisdom of Mr Draper was legend. He was a vibrant, original character who brought us much to ponder. Who showed us the times past.He will be remembered with respect, with smiles and gratitude for sharing his world view.
Dr Draper was a Oner.
Condolences to his family. He will never be forgotten. Truly a special person. I vote the Trabb House remain open as a tribute
So many giants! Thank you all!
Love and Peace with just a little shit kicking.
Dr Draper was a Oner.
Condolences to his family. He will never be forgotten. Truly a special person. I vote the Trabb House remain open as a tribute
So many giants! Thank you all!
Love and Peace with just a little shit kicking.
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: back out to Grasse
Posts: 304
The Admiral was always welcome aboard my barge, where he regaled me for hours with stories of how life used to be before the dreadful, noisy and smelly, internal combustion engines. A pox on the numbskulls who invented them.
Sadly now he's moving away down river on the ebbing tide. He will be sorely missed.
IG
Sadly now he's moving away down river on the ebbing tide. He will be sorely missed.
IG
Scalextric for Men
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Southern England outside the M25
Posts: 277
I am late to reply.
His Stratocaster rests, in the rightful place.
We are not short of memories: none to erase.
All of us saddened: via electronic paper.
We' ll continue, for Anthony Hugh Draper.
His Stratocaster rests, in the rightful place.
We are not short of memories: none to erase.
All of us saddened: via electronic paper.
We' ll continue, for Anthony Hugh Draper.
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Global Vagabond
Posts: 628
May the wind always be at your back in your new abode Mr Draper.
You held a unique position, that being not one poster on Jet Blast would dare criticise you.
Thank you for many hours of pleasure reading your erudite musings.
RIP.
You held a unique position, that being not one poster on Jet Blast would dare criticise you.
Thank you for many hours of pleasure reading your erudite musings.
RIP.
Bluey
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 354
Something to make us all smile ... Tony's sister tells me that his nephew noticed a horse called Commander of the Fleetwas racing at Cheltenham. He put a pound on it in Tony's honour ... and it won!!!!! 
Last edited by BlueDiamond; 17th Mar 2019 at 05:25.
Just call me Rotty
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Rotty's Bar and Grill (@RJAF) Shinshu JP
Posts: 42
I dunna understand the whole Brekkie-zit thing but that's funny Bluey.
Beer... a holiday? Lemme tell ya's... ask me about Oktoberfest. Definitely sacred.
Snow showers and sun at the Hill. If ya donut like mountain weather just wait a few minutes.
Funny... we had sausages too last night, some nice German ones that some fellers down in TKO make... respectable is both size and flavour, really tasty.
Beer... a holiday? Lemme tell ya's... ask me about Oktoberfest. Definitely sacred.
Snow showers and sun at the Hill. If ya donut like mountain weather just wait a few minutes.
Originally Posted by mustpost
Still bit of dust in my neighbourhood, sossiges tonight in his honour .
